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Message-ID: <1303495578.2590.33.camel@mulgrave.site>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:06:18 -0500
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange block/scsi/workqueue issue
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 20:01 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, guys.
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:17:46PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:12 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > This patch looks pretty clean. Shouldn't you serialize that ->queuedata
> > > = NULL assignment with the queue lock, though?
> >
> > pointer assignment is atomic, isn't it? As in on a 32 bit arch, it
> > definitely is, and I thought on 64 bits it also was. So a simultaneous
> > reader either sees previous value or NULL.
>
> What was the conclusion of this thread? James' fix seems minimal and
> good for this cycle but I don't see it there yet. Jens, James?
Sorry, forgot to cc you.
I've proposed the minimal fixes for this cycle here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130348665328233
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130348673628282
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130348680328356
And I'll merge at least the scsi one.
But there's been no long term conclusion yet.
James
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